Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico. Event id: pr15212017. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15212017. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:15:24 / 4:15 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -66.4791 West, latitude 19.1194 North, depth = 35 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 31/07/15 / 2015-07-31 20:15:24 / July 31, 2015 @ 8:15 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).

Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Campanilla, Levittown, Camuy (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days fifty-two, in the past 30 days seventy-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 72 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.4791° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.1194° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	72km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-07-31 20:15:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-31 20:51:21	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	REVIEWED	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	168	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	pr	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,pr,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6404988	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	234	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	pr15212017	Id of event.
Event Code	15212017	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr15212017,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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